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Allow to correlate JVM SMF Data to a Job and Step to allow analyse SMF 121 in large Batch environments

We need a way to understand which JOB a SMF121 record belongs to, to understand what caused an abnormal behaviour. Therefore a SMF30COR field could be part of the SMF121 record, we would still need to understand what Jobstep is the SMF121 Record f...
10 months ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 1 Future consideration

CATTool should Provide Date of Master Key Changes

As part of the Crypto Card or KDS Db2 tables, The CATTool should provide the date that the MKVP value was first stored in the KDS or the date that the MVKP value was changed in the KDS as a result of reencipher. This support was recently provided ...
6 months ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / Other 0 Under review

Checking connections between GDPS K-systems defined in GEOGROUP by GDPS Monitor I

GDPS has the ability that work in conjunction with Kp-systems, Kg-system, and Kr-system, such as the MGM3SITE and MGM4SITE procedures. To run the procedure, it is mandatory to establish connections between K-systems defined in GEOGROUP. But curren...
over 2 years ago in GDPS 1 Not under consideration

IBM Z Open Editor supports pseudo-SO/SI characters

Hello, Please consider functional improvements with regard to IBM Z Open Editor (VSCode). We would like to provide pseudo-SO/SI characters which are inserted for DBCS text so that record length and column alignment are the same as on an EBCDIC sys...
about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Future consideration

WAPL | Apply FILTER-Function to OBJECTs and SAVELISTs in LIST or SELECT Statements

The Filter function can be applied to the output of any List or Select statement. It will post-process the output and filter it only in the output DD-Statements when they are actually written (after processing the input WAPL Script) for the applie...
11 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Not under consideration

GDPS Standard Options 3 doesn't show enough information

It would be useful to have more information in panel 3 of Gdps 'standard options' to show the size of Memory of all lpars including CF. We now use GDPS to activate/load lpars and we need to check if a new memory profile updated has been taken into...
about 2 years ago in GDPS 13 Planned for future release

Document changes even in security PTFs

When changes are made under the scope of a security PTF, that change is not documented, and this may cause problems for the clients (example: when userid or password is wrong, the message that is issued has changed with a security PTF, and as the ...
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Generate a report with smaller headers - trackinglist report - OFIELDS

The trackinglist report is very useful but the number of lines of the report is huge, like millions of lines for just a 5 minutos data window. This report is used as input into another system/step that will process the data and generate insights a...
4 months ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 0 Future consideration

Increase the number of available Application Symbols (SUBSSYMBOLn/SUBPSYMBOLn), similar to System Automation Symbols (AOCCLONEx)

Both simple and complex environments can be managed more easily through symbol substitution. With additional Application Symbols, a more tailored approach to automation management can be achieved, reducing administration efforts through reusable d...
8 months ago in IBM Z System Automation 3 Future consideration

We need the correct SYSLIB concatenation details in DBB UserBuild “Build Report” (IDZ).

We need the correct SYSLIB concatenation details in DBB UserBuild “Build Report” (IDZ). Now its showing nothing and developer need to open the .log file need to check and its very time consuming. Since IDZ knows that COPYBOOK is picking from the r...
about 2 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 0 Submitted

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